Essay about Causes Of The Civil War

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What was the cause of the civil war? How did it start and what was the uprising action that lead up to this deadly event? Well, back over 150 years ago when slavery was on the rise the people would go back and forth to determine whether or not slavery was a good or bad thing to have. Some of this uprise was because at different points in time there was more free states then slave states and that bothered the slave states because they were losing land to expand out onto that was below the the Missouri compromise line. Slave states wanted to have all the states they could get for slavery to expand throughout the U.S., So they could overpower the free states during voting's. I believe that in order for slavery to be contained into a…show more content…

What was the cause of the civil war? How did it start and what was the uprising action that lead up to this deadly event? Well, back over 150 years ago when slavery was on the rise the people would go back and forth to determine whether or not slavery was a good or bad thing to have. Some of this uprise was because at different points in time there was more free states then slave states and that bothered the slave states because they were losing land to expand out onto that was below the the Missouri compromise line. Slave states wanted to have all the states they could get for slavery to expand throughout the U.S., So they could overpower the free states during voting's. I believe that in order for slavery to be contained into a smaller region there has to be more free states so that they can overrule the slave states in a vote. with the loss of slave states slavery begins to hang from a string from being brought to an end, because of the rising number of free states that expanding throughout the states from the north and slowly moving their way south. This will effect the slave states and be a
Leading cause to the civil war in 1861.

To start the cause to the civil you have to go back to the 1800's when life was simple and the only thing that mattered to the people was their jobs and their families. Oh and of course their land. Well with the slave and free states fighting over territories out in the west, this caused an uproar between the two. The reason was

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Instructor: Dr. Peter Skirbunt
Course: History 1301
College: Central Texas College
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